September - December 2025: Leonardo Nevari, *1992, Italy

Leonardo Nevari is a pianist, composer, and artistic researcher. At Villa Sonnen­berg, he is devel­oping the music theatre work Black Snow on Peter Mieg’s Pleyel grand piano — a compos­i­tion for solo piano inspired by Sarah Kane’s 4.48 Psychosis.
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January - April 2026: Agnieszka Zagraba, *1996, Poland and Austria

Agnieszka Zagraba is a Polish artist and designer focusing on Digital Arts and New Media. In her current project The Land of Bearing Shapes, she explores digital meta­phors for emotions and combines them with spon­tan­eous water­color painting processes. Her work unfolds at the inter­sec­tions of tech­no­logy, emotion, and visual commu­nic­a­tion.
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May to August 2026: Julia Holt­mann, *1983, Spain and Germany

The sketch­book serves Julia Holt­mann as an intimate space of reson­ance, while nature is her living source. She increas­ingly exper­i­ments with raw, natural mater­ials and new forms of present­a­tion that connect drawing, install­a­tion, and sculp­tural approaches. During her resid­ency at Villa Sonnen­berg, she invites parti­cipants to the work­shop “The Wondering Line – Drawing as a tool for falling into ourselves.”
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September to December 2026: Agne Kison­aite, *1983, Lithuania

Lithuanian artist Agnė Kišon­aitė trans­forms discarded mater­ials into poetic install­a­tions. In Lenzburg, she creates “Winged Motion” – a kinetic work about birds, migra­tion, and trans­form­a­tion, inspired by found objects and tradi­tional Lithuanian straw art. Work­shops invite the local community to take part in the creative process.
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